Love is Best at cozy Cove

By GEORGE RUSH and JOANNA RUSH MOLLOY
DAILY NEWS GOSSIP COLUMNISTS

Monday, May 14th 2007, 4:00 AM

The opening of The Cove resort in the Bahamas last weekend was so chockablock with celebrities you had to watch out where you stepped.

While Travolta flew in on his personal jet, Stevie Wonder and his sprawling family squeezed into the economy section on a Delta flight. Stevie celebrated his birthday Thursday night at the Cove branch of Bobby Flay's Mesa Grill. Star Jones and Al Reynolds crashed the intimate dinner. But it was hard to blame them, what with Nancy Wilson, Joss Stone, John Legend, Mos Def and India Arie laying out a musical tribute to Stevie. Later, at the nightclub Aura, Big Boi not only picked up a $37,000 bar tab, he left a $10,000 tip.

Among those who did make the never-ending revel were Sean Connery, Kanye West, Usher, Babyface, Ashanti, Gloria Estefan, Liv Tyler (who went swimming with the dolphins the resort rescued from Mississippi after Hurricane Katrina) Gayle King, Magic Johnson, Charles Barkley, Rob Lowe, Nick Lachey and Vanessa Minello, Michele Rodriguez, Al Roker, Ivana Trump and Dave Winfield.